1. OBJECTIVES
• Communication: Role-play being in a bus
and have a conversation about an
anecdote.
• Language: Review past tense.
• Learning: Answer a question, and ask a
similar one.

2. RADIO SHOW:
• Think of an anecdote.
• Write down four questions with you
about your anecdote.
• Exchange questions and ask them in pairs
in a radio show. Follow the example:

3. RADIO SHOW:
• Announcer: Hello and welcome to ‘basic
three radio show’! Today we want to ask
our listeners about an anecdote, and the
best anecdote will receive $1.000! Ok,
we got a listener. Hello, how are you?
• Listener: Fine, how about you?
• Announcer: really fine. So, (questions)

4. STRATEGY:
• Answer a question, and ask
a similar one.
–Why do we use this strategy?

5. CONVERSATION:
• Ben: So, how ______ __________ weekend, Jessica?
• Jessica: Great/very nice/good! Gina and I
_____________
• Ben: Oh, _________?
• Jessica: Yeah, it was _______, but ______. I was
________.
• Ben: Yeah, I bet.
• Jessica: So... Anyway, what _____ _____ ____?
• Ben: Oh, I _________________. It was
______________
• Jessica: Really? Nice.
• Ben: Well… Anyway, I _________ ___________ see you
later.

6. TASK 1B:
• Goals:
–Expand the conversation.
–Use different kinds of conversation
strategies.
–Organize what you say. Check the
structure:
»Positive sentences: Subject + Verb +
Complement.
»Questions: Auxiliary + Subject + Verb +
Complement.

7. MINI-TASK: TALK ABOUT AN
ANECDOTE
• Role-play being in a bus.
• Take turns to change the conversation.
– Goals:
• Change the topic of conversation or finish it using
‘anyway’.
• Answer questions and ask similar ones.
– Use different kinds of conversation strategies.
– Organize what you say. Check the structure:
» Positive sentences: Subject + Verb +
Complement.
» Questions: Auxiliary + Subject + Verb +
Complement.

8. HOMEWORK:
• Workbook lesson B and C Unit 11.
• Write what happened that day using
connectors as and, but, when, after that,
before, finally/at the end… Follow the
example:

9. MODEL:
• When I was a child, I was seven I think, I
wanted to be a page at my local church. One
Thursday I went there but I didn’t tell my
parents. I just talked with the priest, went to
mass, and helped the priest. After that, I went
home and found my father totally out of his
mind! He was really worried and he told me
off. I began to cry but at the end he was happy
that I was interested in religion.